Re: [office-accessibility] Re: [office] Re: [office-accessibility]radio buttons wrap-up

[Jonathan Pryor <jpryor@novell.com>]

On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 11:41 +0100, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02
- Hamburg wrote:
> If I recall it correctly, then the way it works in HTML is as follows:
> 
> - Radio buttons are indeed grouped by their name.
> - For Javascript, all radio buttons that have the same name are combined 
> into an array, so that the access to the individual button is possible.
> - There is further the possibility to access radio buttons like any 
> other HTML element by their ID attribute.

That is correct.

> ODF like HTML uses the name for grouping.
> In ODF 1.0/1.1 we had a form:id attribute for all controls, including 
> radio buttons. We have consolidated that for ODF 1.2, so that these now 
> have an xml:id.
> 
> That means: It is possible to identify controls by their ID, or by their 
> name (which is also used for grouping). And it is in particular possible 
> to assign an ID to a radio button in addition to a name. I'm therefore 
> not sure if I do understand what is missing here, or why we should 
> require a third name or ID, which in any case does not make things easier.

What's missing is that I didn't know about the addition of xml:id, nor
did anyone else I conferred with.  xml:id should be a workable answer,
and I'll work on supporting this.

> Well, it is true that the script engine of OpenOffice.org does use the 
> name of controls to access them rather then their ID and that there 
> currently is no UI support for xml:id. But these are details of the 
> implementation. The script engine may also search for the ID of controls 
> if this is more appropriate.

A related question is one of naming: is it acceptable within the script
engine to have two different names for the same control?  If not, then
xml:id could pose problematic.  I don't know if the ODF standard says
anything about this scenario.

Thanks,
 - Jon